Rained pretty much all day. Breakfast at Bob’s. Very crowded due to Father’s Day crowds. Shopping at ShopRite. Later went to Natural Foods on Healy Blvd. Mostly a putter day. 6 people in the gallery.
Halo over mashed potatoes next to us.
Japanese mushroom salad
Scene at bar at Swoon.
Drinks at Swoon with Dave behind the bar.
Window display at Limner.
Spent most of the day hanging end of newest DOG show. UTMH telecon with Troy Web, Matt Almeida, David Ackerman. Migrated website from diary.markorton.com to markorton.com.
Emily Chameides sent me a text message at 4pm:
Just had to call 911. Found someone passed out in men’s room. Greenport Rescue and HPD responded and they revived him. Glad we caught it in time.
I was in the car going to play tennis. Saw the ambulance already at the library. I responded later. She replied:
Yes. Glad they came quickly and revived him. We have narcan but I called 911 first and they came so quickly. Glad I didn’t need to administer.
I stopped by her house on 5th on my way home from tennis. She was sitting on her stoop. We chatted about the incident for a few moments, the emotional burden of finding unresponsive bodies and then deciding what to do. She and Paul have Narcan training. But she pointed out that this guy was really big and it happens that they get aggressive when revived. But the Greenport Rescue came so quickly that she didn’t need to work that over too much.
Tennis was a first outing after the trip and illness, first time in just a day shy of four weeks. Trouble striking the ball squarely. Volleying OK. Ted was like the Energizer Bunny. I was fairly dead. Only played for an 45 minutes.
Drinks with Ted and Anne. Ted had made a big plate of deviled eggs. Shared notes of our trips. They had taken ten students from Marist to Paris for ten days. As usual the conversation was loud, abrupt, back and forth.
Ended evening with another The Closer.
Cold, rainy, rain. Breakfast at Rivertown Lodge with Dave and Daniel Drake. Food so-so. Conversation buoyant.
DOG had some visitors despite weather.
Worked on new keynote capitalism essay. Biggest new claim concerns the ubiquity of regulators in every system except the economy. 
Then a bunch written on the What Matters essay.
Drinks at Swoon with Dave. Talked about Karen’s book project. Maybe pre-sell 500 copies.
Watched more Unforgotten and The Closer. 
Still underpowered from cold. Foggy and low energy.
Met with Tony Kieraldo at Rev about UTMH matters. He told me about his music tour in Europe and Lebanon. We talked through a new social media campaign to develop leads for UTMH. Bright guy. Also met with David and Seth. The, late afternoon Ole. Missed an appointment at PT with Corey Smith. This has not happened before.
HAL NonFiction Book Club – picked up Erika Born out in Ghent because Nick was busy and couldn’t come. Good discussion of Drawdown edited by Paul Hawken. Emily, Karen, Lisa Stewart, Erika Born, Nancy Kuster, Michael O’Hara, Ruth Tamaroff, Juan Flores(new) and Bob Braunlich from SunCommon in Rhinebeck. Michael gave a good description of how a carbon tax could be implemented.
Up promptly Tuesday morning. Enema in preparation for the prostate MRI up in Latham at ImageCare. Arrived at 10:30 back in car at 11:40. 30 minutes in the machine. Wait for the results.
Emily called from the library to discuss how to handle requests from Register Star for video from security camera on second floor that may have caught the altercation between Tom DePietro and John Friedman during a Common Council meeting last week. Camera belongs to Galvan but is recorded on our equipment. The police had come by earlier and taken a copy with Galvan’s permission. Emily will refer them to Galvan for permission to release.
Long nap in the afternoon. Dinner at Dave’s in Catskill. Karen made a salad and I made rice pudding. Lamb, saag paneer, yellow sauce, cheese cake by Hazel.
8 pm looking west.
Outside Tanzys
Construction next to Ruth and Michael seems stalled.
Breakfast at Tanzys. Talked with Tom and Tisha Mulligan about travel. Barcelona. Rome. Sicily. Most of the Hudson police force was there too. As always the food was great.
Farmers Market is back outdoors. Cold, windy.
Then to Goodwill to find a new lightweight jacket. Came home with jacket and new sweatpants and a large cast iron sauce pan. This to replace one of the nonslip pans
Picked up four frozen chickens at Letterbox Farm.
Karen went to balance class at the library. Three people came in the gallery.
Tennis at CGCC with Ted. Cold and slow. Played for a little over an hour.
Ted and Anne came for drinks. The usual fun. Lots of talk about Rome.
Stoned. Listened to the Last Walz. Then Bosch.
Overall a sluggish day. Sore throat, low energy. Worked on various new entries for projects in the diary. Old writing that seems germane even after ten or more years. Me and Religion and Are We Over Taxed..??..
A little gallery sitting….saw David Murphy on the street. He is back from Ft. Lauderdale.
Photos from Jonathan and Nan
By chance I had seen photos from these fields on Facebook in the last couple of days. I pointed out in a comment that there are over a billion bulbs planted by hand. When Karen and I went on a tour of this area in early March 2017 we saw men dangling prone in a box hauled across the field by a tractor planting the bulbs by hand. The tractor driver was standing in the field nearby having a smoke. The tractor is guided automatically over the field by GPS or laser location.
Tennis with Ted at 4pm. Dead on my feet. Stopped by 5pm due to rain.
Dinner with David Drake at Barnwood.
Breakfast at Bob’s with short visit to ShopRite. CVS to pick up Tadalafil. Only took two 20 mg tablets at $106. See if it works. Gallery sitting rest of day. Karen went to her balance class at the library and then to Ctr for Photography at Woodstock for an opening.
Seen at ShopRite. Not sure why “paws” is better than “feet”?
Spent lots of time on 2011 road trip project here. Also a posting on AD of John Oliver’s pieces on the US justice system John Oliver’s pieces on the US justice system.
Emily and Michael Chameides came by the gallery at the end of the day. Left exactly at 5:30. Good talk with Michael about his supervisor role and other local politics and policies. Very smart guy, Low key, pleasant to boot. Since I speak with Emily regularly we barely spoke. They enjoyed the exhibit, LandEscapes.
Michael O’Hara and Ruth Tamaroff came for drinks at 6:30. Lots of talk about Michael’s two week visit to Rome in January. We are planning a visit in May. He gave us very detailed descriptions of places he visited with suggestions along the way. I took three pages of notes. Very much fun visit with them. Ruth was a bit tippy on leaving. Michael seems impervious to drink.